NOAA released new data that 114 of the whales have been documented as dead, seriously injured or sub-lethally injured or sick since the start of an 'unusual mortality event' in 2017.
A review of the status of a vanishing species of whale found that the animal's population is in worse shape than previously thought, federal ocean regulators said Monday.
The Center for Coastal Studies Marine Animal Entanglement Response team has been working to help the animal and was able to remove 200 feet of heavy rope from the whale, but she remains entangled.Sign up for NECN newsletters. Thirty-six of the 114 whales included in the estimate had died, NOAA documents state. The agency cautioned that only about a third of right whale deaths are documented, so the total number of dead or injured animals could be much higher.
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